A legislative committee was told today that the new completion date for the Wakota Bridge has been moved up a year. The eastbound span of the bridge (it’s actually two separate bridges) should open in July 2010.
The massive project began in 2002, and has ballooned by $56 million. It was originally supposed to be finished last year.
The bridge carries I-494 across the Mississippi between Newport and South St. Paul.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
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